SC Supreme Court chief justice receiving honorary doctorate
The chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Barry Black, will address August’s round of graduates, USC announced Monday.
Black, who also served as the chief of chaplains for the U.S. Navy, is the first African American Senate chaplain as well as the first Seventh-Day Adventist to be elected to the position. He will also be awarded an honorary doctorate, as will Kaye Hearn, a South Carolina Supreme Court associate justice.
Hearn is only the second woman to serve on the state’s highest court and earned her law degree from the USC School of Law.
Black will address 1,504 graduates from baccalaureate, master’s and professional degree programs from all eight USC system campuses Saturday, Aug. 10 at 10:30 a.m. at the Colonial Life Arena.
Anna Scheyett, the dean of the College of Social Work, will speak at the 8:30 p.m. doctoral hooding ceremony on the same day at the Koger Center for the Arts.